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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-22
INTER STATES LIFE ASSOCIATION,
STANTON. VA.
NJ. ERSkINE MILLER, President.
n 7, COOKE Sacratary

Ls oOSN
GEORGE C. JORDAN, General Agent.
yyHE immense amount of Life Insurance
carried in this country makes it Of National
Importance that heads of families should be
able to secure it as cheaply as possible consis-
tent with safety. Especially is this necessary
stances, who must earn their living by hard
knocks and in the face Of a competition that is
becoming keener and sharper every day.
If life insurance is not safe it is not worth
carrying, and if it is too costly, the men who
most need it cannot carry it all. How to make
it both safe and cheap is the problem of the
day, and he who solves it will have done a
great and patriotic service for his fellow. men.
The Old Line Companies are certainly safe
when honestly managed, but their rates are
so high, that only the rich can afford to carry
such an amount as would provide for a family,
while the great mass of men, and those, too,
whose families most need protection, are COM
PEELED to 60 without insurance, or seek it IN
the assessment companies or secret orders.
The fact that these cheaper institutions are to-
day furnishing more insurance than all the Old
Line companies combined, shows how eager
are the mass of citizens for insurance that is
within reach of their means. While these
orders and corporations are furnishing lnsur-
ance cheap enough, yet, at best, they can only
be looked upon as temporary expedients and
not altogether satisfactory. But it is plain,
that somewhere between the old line and as
sessment plans there must be a middle ground.
which is not only SAFE, but Just and jar to all
parties.
THE INVERTEBRATES LIFE AssoCIA-
TION of Staunton, Va, has sought earnestly
and honestly to find this middle ground. In
this search they have, at large expense, con-
suited and employed the foremost a%ctuaries
and insurance experts in this country, and up
on their recommendation have adopted a line
of rates which is entirely safe. and yet, is in
the reach of every thrifty and Industrious mar
who desires to protect his family against his
death.
To ascertain this safe rate, they added to the
actual death cost experienced by the old line
companies an ample reserve, and then a rea-
sonable amount for expenses and profits, but
so limited as to compel. economical manage
ment. So plain and fair and popular are it's
methods that over three millions Of business
was done in the first eight months work. Its
rates are fixed, and must be paid, deaths or no
deaths, but are divided into two, four, or six
payments a year, as may best suit the con-
v%enience of the applicant. llEi
Active Agents wanted in South Carolina.
For further particulars, call or send address
to JAS D.. PACKARD, Manager,
Columbia, s. C.
January II 2 If
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-22

THE SNAKE DEFENDED.-The snake
performs a valuable service to man in de-
stroying destructive insects and keeping
the waters of ponds and streams pure and
wholesome. It gratifies mans aesthetic
sense by it's brilliancy of coloring and the
ease and grace of its movements. The
flesh of the snake constitutes a nutritious
article of diet, and its oil is useful for
healing purposes. Like every other crea-
ted thing the serpent has been placed IN
the world to do some specific work and so
far as man can learn it does it we'll.
But is not the snake cruel, crafty and
treacherous? This is a superstition which
has been proven to be false by all the OBJ
served facts. 1t is q delusion which was
begotten by the erroneous scriptural in
depreciation, propagated thoughtlessness,
and which has ignorance and prejudice as
its sole excuse for being.-Gtobe-D Democrat.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-22

KossUTH IN HIS OLD AGE.-I suppose
that most of your readers would be sur
prised if told that the famous Hungarian
patriot, Louis Kossuth, is still alive. But
such is the case. He is living at Turin at
the advanced age of s.. I have recently
had two letters from Italy giving news OF
the venerable statesman. MIR. st. l.. Tou-
hay, our consul at Turin, writes me that
1.-The general is in retirement and receives
only enthusiastically, visits from some
few friends whom he especially desires to
meet. Indeed, owing to his advancedage
and consequent intirmities, he has renounc-
ed all active pursuits OF any sort Whatso-
the same subject from a Naples letter:
"He spent last winter here with his son,
Maj. kossuth, who resides in Naples, and
who is the magnate-the Tom Scott-of
the whole western network of Italian rail-
roads from the Corniche or Ligurian
coast to the occidental tip of the boot."-
Paris Cor. Chicago Inter Ocean.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-22

A LOVE STORY IN A SCORE OR So OF
L1NEs.-From the German is taken the
beautiful story of the ivy's origin. A
Rhine maiden, somewhat of a coquette'
promised to give her hand to a noble young
man, "but not yet" she said, "give me
freedom q little longer" Weeks passed,
and the youth becamejealous of hersmiles,
urged herto name the day when she would
make him forever happy but with q mer-
ry laugh and twinkling eye she babe him
"wait." Repeatedly he came to her. At
last he said IF still thou tellest me to
wait it will be forever" Thinking he
only told her this to brighten her, with a
toss other pretty head, she replied: "Then
wait forever, kind sir" With one long,
sad gaze on her sweet face he left her:
He went to the holy war, and she pined
and died. One day a strange plant sprang
up on her grave. 1t put forth its tender
leaves and long, slender fingers, ever NOV
ing onward. 1t covered the grave, then
moved on over the ground. The super
s~titious villagers watched it with wonder,
and they whispered to one another that
thiy strange vine Was-ther maiden !vy's
soy1going forthtofind her overwhelming
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THE STATE OF SONORA.

Sitting in an Ell Paso hotel, William M.
Edwardy, who was chief of scouts under
Lawton, in the last Apache campaign, told
some interesting things about that 5000
mile march. In one sense the pursuit OF
Geronimo was an exploration of Sonora,
the northwestern corner of Mexico, in
which Americans are just now more inter
ested, probably, than in any other portion
of the sister republic. Undeveloped and
prospected only in part, Sonora is known
to be one of the richest Of Mexican states
in precious minerals. Further than this,
it is the great unoccupied grazing region;
After the Apache campaign closed l&t
summer Gen. Miles sent a party of e2Gln-
GERS and scouts, including EdwardyAo
through Sonora, and there was colected y
terra incognita, one of which his yet be9n
made public. T.
Sonora where no white man had been(be-
fore in 100 years. Nobody can tell what
those people have suffered at the hands of
the C~hiricahuas. The losses of life and
property in Arizona and Mexico could be
multiplied many times without approach
ing the long record the Mexicans OF Sono-
"a have against the tribe.
"Sonora is the best hiding place in the
southwest for the Indians" continued the
scout. "The valleys are narrow, but wood
ed. The mountains are covered with tim
Der. Grass grows everywhere and yet it
is a country to great extent u~ninhabited.
Even the maps are away off in til eir loca-
ton of cities and rivers. So long as the
Chiricahuas were at large there were good
reasons for Sonora being unoccupi$d. We
visited the ruins of cities which these In
dams had forced the Mexicans to abandon
after years of terrorizing. Betwee1NNaco-
ri and the Aros river, in northwestern So
nora, there is one of those abandonedNciGes.
From the extent of the ruins, l should say
this must have been a place Of 1000 or
Ii 1000 people. The old church, still stand-
ing, would accommodate at least 500. The
Nucori people called this Iglesia Vlego,
and told US that nothing else caused the
people to give up but the repeated raids OF
the Chiricahuas. These Indians would
make a sudden descent from the mountain
hiding places upon the town, andlie around
the outskirts Of it, killing people and stock
for a month at a time. Then they would
20 off and be away until the inhabitants
began to feel a little secure, when they
would come down again on another muir
dering mission. This city has been aban-
doned many years-lOng enough for the
woodwork to become rotted. The Nacori
people also suffered, though not so much,
because their town was walled in, but they
said they had been besieged many times
Puso del Norte Cor. Gt06e-D Democrat.
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GIccr1Nc GIRrs-Girls. beware /!

LGIGGL1NG GIRLs.-Girls, beware! A
fgirl in the West was a giggler. Every
thing was so funny, ,y'kn9W. she glggled:
this evening"" and she giggled. She was
jolly y'know. Lively girls are attractive,
and she was being lively. Her liveliness
was particularly great when funny re-
marks were made by her masculine friends.
But still to keep up appearances she gig
gled considerably among other girls, who
thought she was slight" One gentleman
mistook her gigling for vivacity. She was
"bubbling over" with life, so to speak. She
wa sparkled and tinkled. She was one
precious little bundle of babbles and CUR
giles and giggles. The man married the
bundle and now he has found out What
was in it. He has sued for a divorce on
the ground that his wife is a persistent
giggler." AS an exchange remarks: 1.-THE
Worstthing about gigglers is their inno-
ence. They do not mean to offend.
Their purpose is to be agreeable. But,
girls, remember it is better never to
laugh than to laugh at everything.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-22

REFINED SPEEcH.-Nothing is more in
dicative of real refinement than accuracy,
simplicity and appropriateness of speech
in conversation, accompanied with sdch
emphasis and such modulatioa-of voice as
arepecessarY for tAedeslred effect Honor
the essential words in every expression,
and never dishonor them by the introduce
ton of redundant words for the sake OF
emphasis. 1t is a g~rievous wrong to al
low young girls to grow up and graduate
from the schools with the silly habit of ex-
pressions that now so generally character
he their talk. 81 shall be, 0 so much
Obliged" 81 shall be just delighted
so hy, can't begin to tell you how glad I
shall !" at will be just splendid-too
nice for anything" Such foolish attempts
at ejaculatory emphasis ought to, be
promptly and effectually rebuked by par
ents and teachers, and the young girls who
indulge in them, ought to be taught how
to speak with propriety, grace and en-
phaSiS,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-22

SELECTED DAIRY HINTs.-Don't waste
food on COWS unable to make a decent re-
turn.
The quality of the food has much to do
with the quality of the milk.
Make your butter so good as to CARRY it
clear out of competition with all substi-
tutes.
The richest mess of milk is not usually
the largest, nor yet is it always the
smallest.
Know by test, and not by guess, which
is the profitable cow in your herd, and why
she is the best.
Weighing a cows milk will not cause
her to give any more, but may cause her
owner to substitute a better one.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-22

INDIAN MEAL DIET.-Good Housekeep-
ing says: "Eat a good bowl of mush and
milk for your breakfast, and you will not
need any medicine. Indian corn contains
a large amount of nitrogen, has qualities
anti DEMONSTRATING, and is easily assimilated.
1t is cheap, and has great nutritive proper
ties. A course o fIndian meal in the shape
of Johnny-cake, hoe-cake, corn or pone-
bread and mush, relieved by copious
draughts of pure cows milk, to which, if
inclined to dyspepsia, a little lime water
may be added, will make a life. now a
burden, we'll worth the living, and you
need no other treatment to correct your
give YOU sweet and peaceful sleep"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-22
A PuZZLER,

A very characteristic story of men who
run to brains is told of the Rev. Philip d,
Schatf, who about thirty years ago was
preaching at Mercersburg, Pa.
The reverend doctor up to that time had
never been married, nor had he lighthouse
BY the charms of one Of the sisters OF his
flock he was persuaded to do the former,
and, as a matter of course, the latter FOL
lowed.
He and his wife had not been long dom
iciled when the perplexing question arose
how to get rid of the kitchen refuse.
The doctor was advised by a neighbor to
c0Inpanied by an offer to sell him one.
Accordingly the pig was purchased, and
Immediately another problem came up to
be solved, viz. how to get a pen for 1t.
Casting about the doctor discovered a large
dry goods box in which some Of his house
hold effects had been received. He set to
work with saw and hammer, and with
pieces of boards from the box he soon con-
structed a pen, which was only a little larg-
er than the pig itself. In a few weeks
the pig grew so that it hardly had room to
turn around and another difficulty had to
be settled. The doctor studied over this
matter several days meanwhile the pig
was hourly getting larger. He finally de-
cided to go overto the neighbor from whom
if was purchased, and ask if he would be
kind enough to exchange evenly and give
him another small pig for the large one
that had outgrown its pen.
The lady telling. this story, Miss Emma
G.. Cook, of Washington, D. c., then a child
of 10, says she sat in her fathers wagon,
while the good doctor told her father in all
seriousness, how kind his neighbor was to
give him a small pig for his large one,
without charging any difference.
OUR BIG CoUNTRY.-The State Of Tex
as alone is larger thar either the Austrian
Empire, the German Empire, France!
Spain or Sweden. California, Dakota and
Montana are separately larger than Nor
way. New Mexico is as large as Great
Britain and Ireland, and larger than Italy
Kansas is considerably larger than Turkey
in Europe. Florida is as large as England
and Wales. Kentucky is larger than Portu'
gal. Indiana is larger than Ireland OF
Scotland. Maryland and Vermont are
each but a trifle smaller than Belgium
Take it as a whole, the United States are
vastly larger than any European country
except Russia. The land in actual use fol
growing corn, wheat, hay, oats and cot.
ton in the whole country now consists Of
275, 500 square miles, or a fraction less than
the area of the State of Texas.
The entire wheat crop Of the United
States could be grown on wheat land OF the
best quality selected from that part of the
area of the State of Texas by which that
State exceeds the present area of the Ger
man Empire. The cotton factories OF the
world now require about 10000 900 bales
of cotton of American weight. Good lane
in Texas produces one bale to an acre.
The worlds supply of cotton could, there
fore, be grown on less than 10000 square
miles, or upon an area equal to only seven
per cent. of the area of Texas.-Centmy.
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AN AVERAGE SEANCE.-Omaha Medi'
um-"The spirit who is now here tells me
you are not an American by BIRTH"
Omaha Mantle vas right"
"He says you were born in another
country"
"Dot is drue."
HE says the name of that country is
Germany"
"Dot vas 80 /; it vas Shermany."
81 am tired now. Three dollars"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-22

a9- The american Midical Journal says
that in the decline of life, when exhausted
nature habitually repels the restorative in
huence of sleep, there is nothing so suita.
BILE to induce healthful repose as one-half
to one teaspoonful of bromidia, at bedtime.
1t may be taken for years in the same dose,
with the same effect, and without detri-
ment, but never except under advice of the
family physician.
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UNsEEMLY HAsTE.-Chicago Husband
1 heard that Mr.. Lard, the eminent expert
in pork, will shortly lead to the altar the
beautiful Miss Sparerib of Wabash ave-
uue. Mr.. Lard, you know was divorced
six weeks ago.
Chicago Wife-And intends to we'd again
80 soonY He couldn't have thought much
of his first wife,-NeW York Sum-.
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saS Owing to the increased electrical in
tensity of the atmosphere, which is obtain
ed BY the continual evulsion of steam
pdsmoke, DR.. Andres estimates that the
danger from lightning is from three to five
times greater than it was fifty years ago.
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bet 1T REsT.-Let it rest! All! how
manN hearts on the brink Of anxiety and
Gisquistude by this simple sentence have
been made calm and happy! Some pro.
ceeding has wounded us by its want OF
tact! lSt it rest. No one will think of it
again.
A harsh and unjust sentence i~rritates us
let it rest whoever may have given vent
to it will be pleased to see it is forgotten.
A painful scandal is about to estrange US
from an old friend let it rest, and thus
preserve our charity and peace of mind.
A suspicious look is on the point of cool
ing our affection let it rest and our look of
Se110pr.
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EClN0MY AND WASTE.

Most farmers claim to be economical,
and doubtless they think they are but
when one comes to think of the vast
amount of money invested in machinery
which goes to ruin every year, simply be-
cause of lack of proper care, he must con-
clude that, no matter how economical the
average farmer is, in some respects, in
Others he is recklessly wasteful.
Go through any neighborhood and you
will see plOWs and harrows and ~cultlvators
standing in the field where they were last
used. All through our western country,
you will see reapers, mowers, and thresh-
ing machines left Ou~t-of-doors all winter.
Wagons seldom have shelter. Any one
who has ever looked into the matter
knows that exposure to the elements does
more to spoil a machine than all the wear
it gets in doing its work. 1t seems strange
that hard working men, men who pride
themselves on their prudence and econo-
my, will allow so much valuable property
to 20 to waste because of neglect and care
~lessness. It is that, and not ignorance,
which brings about so much damage to
farm machinery yearly:
Every farmer should have q shed, at
least-a building enclosed on all sides
would be better-under which to store ma
chinery when not in use. Heshould make
it a point to have everything brought to
this shelter. 1t will not only be protected
in a great degree from the weather, but it
will be where he "knOWs where it is" when
he wants to use it.. If he will treat the
woodwork to a coat of paint occasionally,
and 20 over the metal parts with oil, he
will be investing money and labor to most
excellent advantage. In this way he can
save enough on his machinery in one year
to pay for a good shed.-Ow Country Home.
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@"How long did you say you had
been q widow, Mrs. Frank ?" "About
two years, sir" "And have you become
reconciled to your loss, yet?" "Well,
partly" partly How am I to under
stand that 2" E"Why, I mean that l am
reconciled to the loss of my first hus-
hand, but not to the loss of that compan-
ionship which l might have from a
second"
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p9- "Never fear, my DEAR" remarked
the wife of an ippecunious husband !;
''never fear, I still love you" 81 know
that" he replied; "but that, doesn't help
matters much" "I'll trust you always"
she exclaimed. "Yes, my DEAR" he ex-
claimed with a sigh which came from his
heart, "that is very fine, but unfortunate
ly YOU are not the grocer"
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CURING PEA VINEs.-Last year I had
about nine acres in peas, planted after 1
cut my wheat and oats. AS soon as some
of the peas were ripe | commenced with a
mower drawn by two mules, cutting only
one row at a time, until | finished cutting
them. When I commenced cutting the
vines, I put one hand to putting the vines
in hacks in straight rows along the piece
of pea ground, and as soon as the hand fin
ished putting the vines in hacks or shocks,
1 c~ommencedth nextday hauling and put
ting them in a latticed crib, placing a lay
er Of pea-vines from two two-horse wagons
together, and then a layer of dry rails or
poles on top of first loads, and then anoth-
err two-horse load of p%ea-vines and then
another. layer of rails or poles, and l con-
tinued in this way until L had filled my
crib packed full Of vines. Now l have
never seen finer hay of any kind, and not
a moulded vine among the lot. But the
beauty of the hay, was that it did not shed
a leaf worth anything.-A Farmer, IN
Southern CultiUator.
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aerolites that ever penetrated u atmos-
phere, and cannot weigh less than two
tons. Efforts will be made at once to Sc
cure the aerolite, and the pieces already
gathered will be sent to the Smithsonian
Institution.